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How COVID changed Canadians, their health and the future

Sat, 2025-03-15 01:00

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, its effects live on and continue to have an impact on the health of Canadians. Here's a look back at some of them, including the effectiveness of emergency measures, long-term care deaths, the increasing distrust in public health, mRNA vaccine development and how we're preparing for the next pandemic.

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Elderly patients can deteriorate hourly in the ER. This team works against the clock to get them out

Sat, 2025-03-15 01:00

It may seem counterintuitive, but hospital emergency rooms can be hazardous to the health of elderly patients. The chaotic environment can cause delirium and deconditioning to set in fast, and some patients never leave the hospital again. An innovative team at St. Mary's Hospital in Montreal is helping to prevent that from happening.

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Alberta Health Services calls wrongful dismissal suit filed by former CEO 'groundless and vexatious'

Fri, 2025-03-14 14:47

In its statement of defence, the health authority says former CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos was terminated because of her 'own inadequacies' in performing her job.

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Amid measles outbreak, some Ontario public health units recommending vaccine for some babies at younger age

Fri, 2025-03-14 13:52

In response to an Ontario-wide measles outbreak, with many cases near Brantford, Grand Erie, Hamilton and other public health units have expanded vaccinations to include infants as young as six months. 

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Ontario urging measles vaccinations amid worst outbreak in more than a decade

Fri, 2025-03-14 09:06

The province's chief medical officer of health is urging Ontarians to make sure they are immunized against the measles amid the most severe outbreak in the province in more than a decade.

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RSV shot now free for larger number of older Albertans

Fri, 2025-03-14 04:00

More Alberta seniors are now eligible for provincially funded RSV vaccines. All Albertans 70 and over are now eligible.

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​Advocates don't trust N.B. health minister to do fair investigation into mystery illness

Fri, 2025-03-14 02:00

An advocate for New Brunswickers suffering from unexplained neurological symptoms says a letter obtained by CBC News suggests Health Minister Dr. John Dornan wasn't truthful about his role in the removal of a Moncton neurologist from his post at the clinic treating many of the patients.

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How 5 years of COVID-19 has prepared Toronto to face potential crises in the future

Fri, 2025-03-14 01:00

Five years on, Toronto-area doctors and public health officials are looking back at what they've learned since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — and most agree the early experience will prove useful if the city faces another infectious disease crisis.

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Alberta health minister denies former AHS CEO's claims in statement of defence

Thu, 2025-03-13 18:39

Health Minister Adriana LaGrange is alleging the former CEO of Alberta Health Services was unwilling to implement the government’s plan to break up the health authority, and made “incendiary and inaccurate allegations about political intrigue and impropriety” before she was fired in January. 

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Director says Saskatoon safe consumption site 'drowning' amid overdose crisis

Thu, 2025-03-13 15:57

Saskatoon's Prairie Harm Reduction is asking for the province to get boots on the ground after a week with dozens of overdoses.

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Alberta looking to save $400M in doctor payments, medical association president says in memo

Thu, 2025-03-13 15:06

A confidential memo from the head of the Alberta Medical Association says government seeks cuts to more than 800 physician billing codes to save $400 million. The health ministry says government spending on physicians has risen by $1 billion since 2022-23

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5 years later, Montrealers reflect on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic

Thu, 2025-03-13 14:59

From finishing high school to caring for patients in the hospital, here’s how five people navigated the beginning of the pandemic.

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Calls for government support intensify as 3rd Vancouver Island Indigenous group declares state of emergency

Thu, 2025-03-13 13:51

The Homalco Nation is the third Indigenous group on Vancouver Island to declare a state of emergency due to the toxic drug crisis and has joined calls for federal and provincial government leaders to take urgent action and provide resources to address these issues.

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Ontario measles cases more than double over last 2 weeks, 31 hospitalizations reported

Thu, 2025-03-13 09:58

Ontario is seeing a massive surge in measles cases as an ongoing outbreak spreads among unvaccinated people. Public Health Ontario is reporting 372 total cases since an outbreak began in late October, a jump of 195 cases since the agency's last report on Feb. 27.

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Advocacy groups won't appeal Ontario court's dismissal of Charter challenge to long-term care law

Thu, 2025-03-13 01:00

Advocacy organizations won't appeal an Ontario court's decision to dismiss their Charter challenge of the province's long-term care (LTC) law, which allows hospitals to move people into homes they didn't choose or be charged $400 a day to remain in hospital.

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Patients of Toronto gynecologist linked to infection risk say they flagged negative experiences years earlier

Thu, 2025-03-13 01:00

After CBC Toronto was first to report on Dr. Esther Park's office where Toronto Public Health said earlier this month that cleaning protocols were not being followed, several patients have come forward to share their negative encounters with Park, many expressing their frustration that their voices weren't being heard.

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B.C. doctors get new guidance on involuntary care for drug users

Wed, 2025-03-12 19:09

The guidance from Dr. Daniel Vigo, B.C.'s first chief scientific adviser for psychiatry, is aimed at helping clinicians and others decide when involuntary admission is appropriate for people with both mental-health and substance-use disorders.

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The private cost of public service: how sharing science about COVID put experts in the crosshairs

Wed, 2025-03-12 05:00

Dr. Alex Wong became well-known during the COVID-19 pandemic, doing multiple interviews locally and nationally, but his work led to his body breaking down.

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2 die on Victoria streets little more than an hour apart as Island Health issues drug toxicity warning

Tue, 2025-03-11 18:02

Two people died a little over an hour apart in Victoria on Monday, Victoria police and the B.C. Coroners Service have confirmed

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B.C. aims to poach U.S. doctors and nurses by highlighting 'uncertainty and chaos' south of the border

Tue, 2025-03-11 15:30

The province says it is also celebrating the recruitment of 1,001 new family doctors in two years under a new payment model.

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